How-To: Electron Bow
Make a GIANT EL wire Electron Bow with Becky at Adafruit!
Month: May 2013
How-To: 5-Minute Mason Jar Lamp
Got 5 minutes? Whip up a cute custom mason jar lamp!
“Being John Makervich” and Musical Chess at Maker Faire Seoul
Preview of great projects showing at this weekend’s second annual Maker Faire Seoul.
DiResta: Split log Benches
In each bi-monthly episode of DiResta, artist and master builder Jimmy DiResta (Dirty Money, Hammered, Against the Grain, Trash for Cash) lets us into his workshop, to look over his shoulder while he builds whatever strikes his fancy. On this episode of DiResta, Jimmy goes lumberjack and makes a rustic bench out hefty tree trunk. I like how he uses the chainsaw blade as a rough measuring device and a finishing tool.
How-To: Mother-Daughter Spring Skirts
Susan Beal shares her tips and tricks for making customized mother and daughter spring skirts over on the Coats & Clark Sewing Secrets blog! You can also check out Susan’s super-fast kids skirt tutorial over on her blog, West Coast Crafty.
Shooting the ArcAttack Cover
There are lots of great days, working for MAKE, but April 2 was one that’ll stand out in my memory for awhile. I got to skip out on real work and take a field trip out to the new ATX Hackerspace location on Dessau Rd., here in Austin. ArcAttack’s Joe and John DiPrima, Sam McFadden, and Steve Ward were there, with one of their big Tesla coils, along with two of my favorite peeps from MAKE headquarters in California, flown in just for the occasion: Creative Director Jason Babler and Associate Photo Editor Gregory Hayes.
How-To: Electroluminescent Chuck Taylors
More wearables goodness from Becky over at Adafruit. Folks have been crowing about the advent of wearable electronics for a long time, of course, and while it’s easy for prognosticators and futurists to predict these things in theory, it takes folks like Becky, down in the trenches, to actually make it happen.
